Naysayers

See also Opposing Views.

Some people object to the OLPC plan, giving a wide variety of reasons. This page links to some of the objectors, and to various objections and answers. You might find more from time to time in the Wikipedia article on the Children's Machine, section Criticism.

We have to be able to solve any real problems and answer any real objections, but a lot of the objections come out of ignorance, and a lot more seem to come from people who want the idea to fail. I don't understand that.--Mokurai 00:47, 11 January 2007 (EST)

One of the better sources for objections to the OLPC program is OLPC News (not affiliated with OLPC). Better in the sense that they try to bring out all of the problems they can find in one place, which also makes it easier to answer them.

People

• Bill Gates

• John C. Dvorak

• Lee Felsenstein; And Now the Bad News

• Intel Chairman Craig Barrett

• Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon and Mohammed Diop of Mali: suspicion of project motives

• John Wood, founder of Room to Read

• Wayan Vota, OLPC News

Problems

• Cost of laptop
• Other costs
• Teacher Training
• Internet connections
• Recycling
• Theft
• Grey marketing on eBay
• Government corruption